0 the action of saying officially that political or military information is no longer secret:
The document will be analyzed for declassification by at least three people before being released.
A huge storage area holds thousands of documents awaiting declassification.
The release of the information was part of the biggest declassification program in US history.
A general open problem in the area of secure programming languages is how to devise a type system for a language with declassification operations.
The extremely liberal declassification rules have allowed graduate students into aid agency and foreign ministry archives up to the mid-1990s.
Another practical issue is the need for selective declassification or downgrading.
The bottleneck was the declassification of relevant war work, but resources appeared to be abundant.
Integration with access control shows that even strong noninterference conditions which disallow declassification may be useful and admit practical static checking, once access control is taken into account.
